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Donate Argentina Considers Bills That Could Criminalize Sex Trafficking—But Also Buying Sex
Is it ever helpful, in policy terms, to lump together trafficking and sexual exploitation with the buying and selling of sexual services between consenting adults? This is the question in Argentina right now.
Sexual Health Roundup: An App to Diagnose STDs, No Condoms as Evidence in D.C., and No Sex Ed for Utah Parents
Think you might have an STD? There’s an app for that. Plus more sexual health news from the past week.
Condoms as Evidence: Terrible for Sex Workers, Terrible for Public Health
Police have made sex workers—and people they suspect of being sex workers—afraid to carry condoms by harassing them and using condoms as evidence of crimes.
A Good Year for Red Umbrellas: Advances in Sex Workers Rights in 2012
All activists have good years, bad years and the rare great one. For sex worker rights activists 2012 was a great year.
California’s Prop 35: A Misguided Ballot Initiative Targeting the Wrong People for the Wrong Reasons
California voters hold the power this Election Day to decide if many thousands of people convicted of prostitution-related offenses in their state must now register as sex offenders.
Why Sex Workers Must Be Part of the Global Human Rights Agenda
If we intend to develop policies that are fair and just, we must collaborate with sex workers themselves to afford them the dignity that they and all of us deserve. It’s time for sex workers’ rights to be an integrated part of the global human rights agenda.
Who is a “Criminal?” Exclusion of Vulnerable Groups from International AIDS Conference Nothing to Celebrate
The definition of criminal offenses, the selective implementation of the law, and the resulting stereotypes generate a self-enforcing loop of discrimination and exclusion to the detriment of all. The exclusion of so many legitimate voices from this year’s AIDS conference is just one example.
Why are Human Rights so Central to the AIDS Response in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Everywhere Else?
We will only be able to get people into treatment early, and retain them in treatment, if we finally move from rhetoric to real action on HIV and human rights.